(This article was published in the Shenzhen Daily on April 7, 2014.)
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| These small Buddhas (佛) are waiting to be placed in a reconstructed 10,000 Buddha Hall (万佛殿) at Tiantai Temple (天台寺) on Jiuhuashan, Anhui (安徽, 九华山). |
June 21, 2012 - Tourism is replete with superlatives. Sites are touted as the oldest, newest, biggest, smallest, and so on, all to attract tourist dollars.
Tiantai Peak, I learned, is not the highest on Jiuhua Shan. However, Tiantai Temple, located on the peak, is the highest temple on Jiuhua Shan. It is also the primary focus of pilgrims to this Buddhist wonderland described as being like "a thousand pearls scattered in fog."
